Pet hates?

[Hennessy]

Come on, we all have a few, although admittedly mine are mostly related to the current election coverage.

The word "community", I have especially come to despise, because it's been taken out of context and applied by bureaucrats and politicians to groups of people who have nothing in common apart from being a part of this imaginary construct. Community leaders (how did they get there-were they elected?) liase with community support officers (police) on issues affecting the community as a whole. It really irritates me that this piece of political "newspeak" has ended up so mainstream. Communities are self-defining, they don't magically appear because you tell them to.

Ken Livingstone - for obvious reasons, I'm a car-owning londoner who isnt allowed to drive to the centre of the city I was born in without being fined.

That's all for now, plenty more I'm sure, we'll see what the BBC has to say after the london results are declared.


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"What happened to Spoon?"
"There is no Spoon"
Dog Soldiers

[Mehmsy]

I get really annoyed when people don't tessellate their shopping efficiently on the checkount counter and take up unnecessary space.

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http://standrews.facebook.com/profile.php?id=37106593

[Power Metal Dom]

Crikey, don't open this can of worms!

There are far too many things that irritate the living fuck out of me to put down here, but it's trivial to list dislikes and far more productive to number the things you love.

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Like flames on fuel...upon metal I drool

[Mr Comedy]

Quoting Power_Metal_Dom from 14:07, 2nd May 2008
it's trivial to list dislikes and far more productive to number the things you love.

I can't fucking stand optimists, they get right on my tits.

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"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. " -Lu Tung

[Bizarre Atheist]

Morons and bastards who take up more than one parking space in a busy street/car park.

Journalists who fail to quote or research their work accurately.

People who believe everything that moronic journalists write.

The 'Lower Rents Now' coalition's tent outside the library.

When my fridge is full of food, but none that could reasonably be combined to form a meal (believe me, you don't want to experiment with substituting bread for bananas in a bacon sandwich).

People who don't understand cars and things associated thereto.

'Joke' racism used to hide real racism. Similarly homophobia and sexism.

WebCT.

Switzerland. Such god damn high-and-mighty chocolate-scoffing smug neutral bankers. Don't even have an army.

Good outpouring of hate, there.

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[Tigger]

Switzerland do have an army. Otherwise Swiss Army Knife is a lie.
Its funny that you mention Racism, but then slate the Swiss. Im sure its a grey area, and your on the morally right side. hell, while we at it, lets call the french "Cheese eating surrender monkeys," you see where im going with this?
Anyways, apart from that, i wholeheartedly agree.
Oh, and one more thing... People that wear a uniform and then automatically think they are the police, or have some kind of god like authority outside their workplace. for example, the historic scotland (St. andrews castle) employees that come down and tell you not to climb on the wall. Now as a group, us climbers take care of the beach, clearing up regularly. its those barbeque eating, wine drinking bastards taht dont clean up after themselves that are the problem. if your on the castle sands, and playing/eating/drinking, please guys, take your rubbish away.

Quoting Bizarre Atheist from 14:25, 2nd May 2008
Morons and bastards who take up more than one parking space in a busy street/car park.

Journalists who fail to quote or research their work accurately.

People who believe everything that moronic journalists write.

The 'Lower Rents Now' coalition's tent outside the library.

When my fridge is full of food, but none that could reasonably be combined to form a meal (believe me, you don't want to experiment with substituting bread for bananas in a bacon sandwich).

People who don't understand cars and things associated thereto.

'Joke' racism used to hide real racism. Similarly homophobia and sexism.

WebCT.

Switzerland. Such god damn high-and-mighty chocolate-scoffing smug neutral bankers. Don't even have an army.

Good outpouring of hate, there.

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My Wings Are Like A Shield of Steel...
(Claire Raynor)

[Bizarre Atheist]

Quoting Tigger from 14:33, 2nd May 2008
Switzerland do have an army. Otherwise Swiss Army Knife is a lie.
Its funny that you mention Racism, but then slate the Swiss. Im sure its a grey area, and your on the morally right side. hell, while we at it, lets call the french "Cheese eating surrender monkeys," you see where im going with this?
Anyways, apart from that, i wholeheartedly agree.

Huh. Point taken.

I suppose my only defence is that I don't actually hate Switzerland, and thus my joke hate was in fact only a joke, rather than masquerading any real hate. My feelings towards Switzerland are, ironically, neutral, though I'm rapidly thinking that I should reassess them and produce a balanced, informed opinion...

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[munchingfoo]

'Joke' racism used to hide real racism. Similarly homophobia and sexism.

Is this, "anyone who uses joke racism [sexism][homophobia] is using it to hide the real issue"?

Or

"I can tell when people who use joke racism really mean it, but I understand there are those who use it for purely comical reasons (in much the same way one would use blonde jokes)"

If the later, then I'd be curious to know how you work out which one is which, and I also support you 100% in your dislike. Racism/sexism/sexualityism(??) are abhorent.

If the former, then one of my pet hates is people like you. The British society has been founded on piss taking and banter. To fence off one particular human characteristic (i.e. race,religeon,sex) as out of bounds is to further the segregation, and hinder the inclusion, of that group into British society.

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“ When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading”

[Bizarre Atheist]

Quoting munchingfoo from 15:08, 2nd May 2008

'Joke' racism used to hide real racism. Similarly homophobia and sexism.

Is this, "anyone who uses joke racism [sexism][homophobia] is using it to hide the real issue"?

Or

"I can tell when people who use joke racism really mean it, but I understand there are those who use it for purely comical reasons (in much the same way one would use blonde jokes)"

If the later, then I'd be curious to know how you work out which one is which, and I also support you 100% in your dislike. Racism/sexism/sexualityism(??) are abhorent.

If the former, then one of my pet hates is people like you. The British society has been founded on piss taking and banter. To fence off one particular human characteristic (i.e. race,religeon,sex) as out of bounds is to further the segregation, and hinder the inclusion, of that group into British society.

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“ When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading”

Crikey, quite a response from one little rant.

I can assure you that it is the latter - I have no problem whatsoever with genuine humour for the sake of humour, and races/sexualities/genders are rightly just as much the butt of jokes as, say, chickens trying to cross roads, gingers, blondes or Daily Mail readers. I fear, however, you have strayed a little too far into a self-righteous ostentatiously un-PC 'saving the world one all-inclusive joke at a time' attitude. It's just the Sinner.

I don't pretend to possess a magic racism detector, but I believe that a measure of honesty is usually tangible in people's joke-telling, whether it be tone, audience, context or whatever.

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[JM]

slow people who take their time on the streets...or who stop suddenly to talk to each other, or when two people seem to take up the entire pavement. yeah, slightly strange.



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"Life can be full of many problems"; this can be translated into "tormenting you is how the big man gets his jollies"

[Han]

- people who take up two parking spaces, or who don't indicate. Also, pedestrians who just step out without looking...
- smoking
- people standing on the plastic cups in the bop and smashing them. Also having drinks spilt on me or being elbowed by over-enthusiastic dancers...
- Graham Norton saying 'in their own special way' on 'I'd do anything'
- when books are recalled four times and you know you'll never get to see them until after the essay deadline...

[Grant]

I could suggest so many.

However, probably my number one hate is people who kill or hurt animals/insects deliberately and then follow it with "it's JUST a xxxx".

As if "just" makes it acceptable.

"Its just a human". Wow, funny how that reads differently somehow.

[Wonderboy]

I hate melon.

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

Quoting JM from 18:59, 2nd May 2008
unexplainable

inexplicable

[JM]

Quoting rob 'f*ck off' wine boy from 20:35, 2nd May 2008

Quoting JM from 18:59, 2nd May 2008
unexplainable

inexplicable

fair game
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"Life can be full of many problems"; this can be translated into "tormenting you is how the big man gets his jollies"

[Hennessy]

Yeah I considered calling this thread "pet peeves", but I realise now I hate that expression

I think it's fairly obvious when someone means offence through a joke, so I don't really mind if people I know stereotype me for humour. The amount of non-PC jokes that fly around in my house, I even think it's quite healthy to take the mick out of race,religion, or nationality so long as you don't actively discriminate against people based on those characteristics alone.

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"What happened to Spoon?"
"There is no Spoon"
Dog Soldiers

[LonelyPilgrim]

People who don't call when they say they are going to call. "I didn't have time to have a conversaton" is not an excuse for not calling for four hours. It's a reason to call and say "I don't have time to talk now. I'm sorry, I'll call you later."

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Self-control is the chief element of self-respect; self-respect is the chief element of courage. - Thucydides

[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

people who don't finish their

[Guest]

when she uses my toothpaste and doesn't squeeze it to the end

drying glasses while they are still hot and getting bits of fluff on them

when the water in the shower suddenly runs boiling hot, stops running and then runs boiling hot again

gingerbread men

[Guest]

The swiss do have an army, apart from protecting the pope i beleive the swiss have to practice using arms several times a year.